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The Functional Emotional Assessment Scale by Stanley
Greenspan, Georgia DeGangi, & Serena Wieder enables clinicians,
educators, and researchers to observe and measure emotional and social
functioning in infants, young children, and their families.
Historically, the complexity of emotional functioning has been difficult
to measure and assess. The FEAS meets this longstanding need of the
field. The FEAS conceptualizes, operationalizes, and measures in a
reliable and valid manner:

The full range of emotional functioning of infants, young children, and their families.

Naturally
occurring emotional interactions between infants, children, and
caregivers in a variety of settings, including home and school.

Both easily observable emotional behaviors and the subtle, more difficult to measure, deeper levels of emotional functioning.

Clinical Practice Guidelines:
Redefining the Standards of Care for
Infants, Children, and Families with
Special Needs

Increasing
numbers of young children are presenting
with non-progressive developmental
disorders involving compromises in the
capacity to relate, communicate, and
think. These disorders involve many
different areas of developmental
functioning, ranging from planning motor
actions and comprehending sounds to
generating ideas and reflecting on
feelings. New research and clinical
observations are making it possible to
more fully identify these functional
developmental capacities and, thereby,
characterize each child and family
according to their unique profile. Most
important, these new observations enable
clinicians to individualize assessment
and intervention approaches in response
to the child- and family-specific
question, "WHAT IS THE BEST APPROACH FOR
A GIVEN CHILD AND FAMILY?"

Over the years, the disciplines that
work with developmental disorders have
constructed a large body of research and
clinical experience on the functional
developmental capacities that are
impaired in disorders of relating,
thinking and communicating. This
knowledge, however, needed to be brought
together and organized. In
response to this need, The
Interdisciplinary Council on
Developmental and Learning Disorders
(ICDL) launched an initiative to
systematize current clinical knowledge,
including both research and the clinical
experience of disciplines such as speech
pathology, developmental pediatrics,
neurology, occupational and physical
therapy, psychology, social work,
special education, and child
psychiatry. The result of this
effort is the ICDL
CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES.

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The framework presents newly formulated
indicators to identify at-risk children
in the first and second years of life,
components for a comprehensive
evaluation of infants and children
determined to be at risk, and essential
elements of a successful early
intervention program for ASD and other
developmental disorders. The CDC-ICDL
framework is based on current
understanding of healthy developmental
patterns and is designed to detect all
possible deviations from those patterns.
It uses risk indicators designed to
detect a lack of mastery of age-expected
emotional, social, and cognitive
milestones during a child’s first 2
years of life.